Baron Robert of Annandale

Baron Robert of Annandale (July 1243-4 March 1304) was the Lord of Annandale from 1295 to 1304, succeeding Robert de Brus and preceding Robert I of Scotland.

Biography
Robert was born in July 1243 to the House of Bruce, a dynasty of Catholic Scots. He was a descendant of Henry I of England and David I of Scotland, amongst others. Robert succeeded his father Robert de Brus as lord of Annandale in 1295 on his death, and Robert married Marjorie of Carrick. Robert took part in the Second Barons' War of the 1260s against the Barons' Alliance and in the 1271 Ninth Crusade, and he remained loyal to the Kingdom of England even as his son Robert Bruce supported the peasant rebellion of William Wallace. In response to the 1297 Battle of Stirling, where the Scots defeated the English, his lands were ravaged by the English, and Robert later turned the Scottish flank to the English army, betraying the Scots. Robert wished his son to make peace with King Edward I of England as he was ill and dying, as his son's actions decreased his income from England. Robert died in 1304, dying a leper whose son disowned him.